Jump to navigation. In , the U. City of Hialeah. However, Lukumi may be the most misunderstood legal precedent in recent history. The decision is often cited for the proposition that religious practitioners have a constitutional right to engage in animal sacrifice. This is far from the truth. Lukumi was decided in a unique context, and its holding was not based on the merits of animal sacrifice.
Shannon L. In Springhill, a box containing a decapitated pig and two decapitated pigeons is discovered in a residential neighborhood. In Norfolk, cow tongues hang from trees, and a disemboweled lamb is found on a public street. In Philadelphia, park workers increasingly find themselves cleaning up the carcasses of decapitated animals left in the public parks.
And many local governments are also convinced that this is the state of the law. They are all mistaken. The section concludes with a summary of what the Supreme Court actually held regarding the right to engage in animal sacrifice.
Part IV of the article outlines some constitutionally permissible ways the law can be used to prevent and deter the practice of animal sacrifice. The two legal solutions advanced are municipal licensing and zoning laws, and state and local animal cruelty statutes. This section proposes how legislation in each legal area can have the effect of hindering animal sacrifice.
Further, Cuban Regla de Ocha underwent another unique evolution. In Colonial Cuba, Catholicism was the official religion. On the other hand, it may simply have been an endeavor to mask the continuance of their native religious practices in a colony that would only permit the Catholic religion. Likewise, the natural force, or power, associated with each of the traditional Orishas remains intact.
